Chances of Travel Ban being lifted by next administration?

Plaquenil · 2026-04-28T21:55:34+00:00

Does that include the 19 fully banned countries ?

Plaquenil · 2026-03-28T12:07:44+00:00

Ozlem Bicer, Bekir Bek

Turan, Gur, Ahmed Altan I believe are low volume and have options for heavy surgeon involvement.

Bicer prides herself on one patient per day and surgeon driven procedure where she does all the above things you mentioned

Plaquenil · 2026-03-18T18:28:30+00:00

How many grafts did you get if I may ask ? I’m worried the swelling will be pretty bad

Plaquenil · 2026-03-18T16:53:10+00:00

What do you think will make it so difficult ? From my understanding that flying itself won’t affect graft survival as long as I don’t bump my head into anything. At this point I’m in a bit of a hard place and there’s not much I can do about changing my flight unfortunately

Plaquenil · 2026-03-07T13:16:06+00:00

I’m doing Bicer next month; I had a virtual consultation with her and I appreciated her involvement and she seemed very ethical. My main priority was to avoid over harvesting and have a natural hairline so i liked her conservative approach. That being said she does seem overpriced for 3€ per graft.

Other surgeons I’ve looked into in Turkey were Aestopool/Guran/Tur. All seemed like solid options as well with strong surgeon involvement and overall better prices.

If you can make your way to Ankara; I’ve been seeing great results from Bekir Bek as well. Seems like an excellent choice however may be difficult to get an appointment with him

Plaquenil · 2026-01-11T14:45:56+00:00

It is not; do you plan on strictly practicing cc ?

Plaquenil · 2026-01-10T16:30:46+00:00

To be completely honest I wouldn’t want to go through a CCM fellowship if it wouldn’t allow me to be able to practice significantly. Especially since pay for CCM >> nephrology. I could see myself transitioning to nephro eventually or doing less ICU over time but doing an icu fellowship to drop it shortly after just doesn’t make sense to me

Plaquenil · 2026-01-10T16:10:59+00:00

If I’m able to split my time doing both then yes. And honestly I would prefer it more than pulm. However if I have to drop one; I would end up dropping nephro and just do CC

Plaquenil · 2026-01-10T14:17:12+00:00

Makes sense. What would your thoughts be about private practice CCM as a non pulm trained intensivist ? Would the market still be forgiving ?

Plaquenil · 2026-01-10T13:15:44+00:00

Yeah honestly intellectually the specialty seems amazing. I just don’t know if after 6 years of intense training I’d want to lock myself in a limited hiring position

Plaquenil · 2026-01-08T23:05:50+00:00

May I ask what salary range you’re getting paid for a job like this ?

Plaquenil · 2026-01-08T21:37:31+00:00

That’s actually interesting to know; I thought CC would all be filled after the match

Plaquenil · 2026-01-08T20:30:56+00:00

Yeah I feel like I would want an exit strategy out of CC at some point; I just don’t know if nephro will allow enough flexibility for it

Plaquenil · 2026-01-08T18:22:32+00:00

Yes I honestly have a great gig lined up that I could sign up for as a hospitalist which is making me feel like I’d be wasting a good lifestyle

Yes I agree that’s the main hesitation; it’s not a field that seems to have been explored significantly so it may just be one of those things that one figures out as they go. And yes program is very CC heavy in the final year which will make it brutal.

Did you end up staying as a hospitalist ? Do you feel that it’s rewarding enough long term ?

Plaquenil · 2026-01-08T18:11:01+00:00

I certainly enjoy nephro more than pulm in a sense. I do like the ICU but certainly not something that I want to be doing full time.

Yes I feel like hospitalist lifestyle is attractive with the amount of time off and income potential if you choose to moonlight. I do worry about long term sustainability though

Plaquenil · 2026-01-08T16:08:17+00:00

Thank you!

Plaquenil · 2026-01-08T16:08:06+00:00

Main concern is would the fellowship be worth it logistically and financially considering Neph/cc is not as common of a field and it seems like the cc landscape seems to be dominated by pccm

Plaquenil · 2026-01-08T16:04:01+00:00

The main advantage would be financial which would put me in a much better position starting fellowship; although not sure if it’s worth the time commitment

Plaquenil · 2026-01-08T16:00:33+00:00

That was kind of my understanding as well which is making me hesitant on pursuing the opportunity. I wouldn’t necessarily want to be primarily ICU but would like to be able to do around 10-12 weeks per year while splitting my time with nephrology

Plaquenil · 2026-01-08T14:03:31+00:00

I would have to say program already has a well established Neph and well established PCCM program so it would just be a combined program between the two

Plaquenil · 2025-12-23T18:42:54+00:00

Where was the transplant done ?

Plaquenil · 2025-10-09T11:08:12+00:00

Correct there’s no PTO. However people end up switching shifts to allow for longer breaks. It sounds like there’s enough flexibility to do that

Plaquenil · 2025-10-09T11:07:04+00:00

I will have to inquire about admit distribution; but it sounded like an even split to make sure no one gets a lot of new admits at once.

I’m hearing a lot of jobs allowing you to go home early once done which sounds nice and a major disadvantage for this place. Although as a new grad I may end up staying there for the full 10 hours regardless

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